Error -- dist/Conftest.c: openFile: does not exist

[jb162 at brighton.ac.uk]

Hi caballers, I have installed cabal-install from darcs and can use
update and list but not install. I'm using ubuntu Feisty and ghc 6.6. (I
think this is the same problem that this person has >>
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cabal.devel/1353/ 

jim at mowa624-jb162:~/haskell/cabal/cabal-install$ ~/haskell/bin/bin/cabal
-v3 install xslt
Configuration:
compiler: GHC
repos: hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive
cachedir: "/home/jim/.cabal/packages"
user-install: true
user-prefix: "/home/jim/.cabal"
user-bindir: "$prefix/bin"
user-libdir: "$prefix/lib"
user-libexecdir: "$prefix/libexec"
user-datadir: "$prefix/share"
user-docdir: "$datadir/doc/$pkgid"
user-htmldir: "$docdir/html"
global-prefix: "/usr/local"
global-bindir: "$prefix/bin"
global-libdir: "$prefix/lib"
global-libexecdir: "$prefix/libexec"
global-datadir: "$prefix/share"
global-docdir: "$datadir/doc/$pkgid"
global-htmldir: "$docdir/html"
searching for ghc in path.
found ghc at /usr/bin/ghc
("/usr/bin/ghc",["--numeric-version"])
/usr/bin/ghc is version 6.6
looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in /usr/bin
found package tool in /usr/bin/ghc-pkg
("/usr/bin/ghc-pkg",["--version"])
/usr/bin/ghc-pkg is version 6.6
searching for ld in path.
found ld at /usr/bin/ld
("/usr/bin/ghc",["-c","dist/Conftest.c"])
("/usr/bin/ld",["-x","-r","dist/Conftest.o","-o","dist/Conftest2.o"])
Reading installed packages...
("/usr/bin/ghc-pkg",["--user","list"])
'libxml-0.1' is cached.
Extracting /home/jim/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/libxml/0.1/libxml-0.1.tar.gz to /tmp/TMPlibxml-0.1TMP...
setupWrapper
["configure","-v3","--user","--prefix=/home/jim/.cabal","--bindir=/home/jim/.cabal/bin","--libdir=/home/jim/.cabal/lib/libxml-0.1/ghc-6.6","--libexecdir=/home/jim/.cabal/libexec","--datadir=/home/jim/.cabal/share/libxml-0.1","--docdir=/home/jim/.cabal/share/doc/libxml-0.1","--htmldir=/home/jim/.cabal/share/doc/libxml-0.1/html"] Just "/tmp/TMPlibxml-0.1TMP/libxml-0.1"
cabal: dist/Conftest.c: openFile: does not exist (No such file or
directory)

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jim